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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

The officials (see 13:5) are either officers of the Jewish Council or Levites of the temple guard under the officer in charge of the temple guards (see v. 24). In some languages the term officials is equivalent to “policemen.” In other instances the closest equivalent is “soldiers.” To the Council has been added to the verb they returned in order to indicate to what place they returned. The verb reported may be rendered as “said to the men in the Council.”
Acts 5:22
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